how many keys are on your keychain?

my janitor used to live in school.
or so was the myth.

my janitor was secret millionaire
or so was the myth.

2

he had a room with a bed and a calender with naked women.
or so was the myth.

i have 8:

- car key
- apartment key
- mailbox key
- key to my mom's house
- key to my dad's house
- old key to my dad's house that doesn't work anymore that i should get rid of
- 2 that i'm not even totally sure what i used to use them for

2

- building key
- apt key

you guys are making me feel like it is i who is the janitor

11.

2 house
1 mailbox
2 office
1 classroom
2 car (one for boot)
2 parents' house

how bout that

6

house(2),car,parents,office(2)

Forgot: one for the condo pool complex.

oh that's right, one of the keys i didn't recognize is for the steering wheel 'club' thing that my wife now uses in her car

5: house, car, bike, shed, other shed

building, apt, basement, boiler room, laundry room
parents house
office
bike lock
i guess that's 8

oh plus mailbox, that's 9

Due to my ruthless pursuit of simplicity, my keychain only carries 4 keys.

Because I wear pants for work I sport the bulge in the wrong part of my body.

wtf there's no option for 18? That's how many I have!

2

office
apt
building
car
moms house
mailbox

6

my keys are in the bedroom which has gone dark but from memory:

-house
-my car
-gf's car
-mom's car (which i borrow sometimes if mine is being repaired)
-parents' back door
-desk drawers
-laptop docking station

building
apt - 2
practice space - 3
car
parents' house
work - 10

haha sorry sarahel, 18 is the 13th floor of poll options apparently

serious question sarahel -- what job entails 10 keys -- i'm not saying you're a janitor i'm just curious

5

sarahel is a locksmith iirc

8 although there is scope to get rid of 2.

One. My Front Door Key.

2 years ago it would have been 4:
House, Car, and two bolt type keys I could not tell you what they were for.

i have 9 and i think only one of those is useless

7 - two for house's front door, two for work's front door, one for the corridor leading to work's front door, one for the shopping arcade where my work used to be situated (I love still having this key - if I wanted I could go in at like 3am, use the code which I still remember to get into the tunnels under the arcade, and run around like an 11-year-old), one for my ex-gf's front door so I can feed her/our cats while she is on holiday

8 if you count the bottle opener which is a key to opening beer

2 real keys (flat, bike)
3 rfid fobs (communal door 4 flat, office building, office)

this poll is based on antiquated technology.

Looks like I have 5, though I can't even remember what one of them is for... I guess I should take it off the chain?

8 keys:

• cheapo metal file box key #1
• cheapo metal file box key #2
• old rucksack key
• disk box key
• front door key #1
• front door key #2
• back door key
• padlock key from a padlock that hasn't been used for 10 years

Yeah, but one day you will be at a door and wondering how to get in. At this point you will try a key previously regarded as redundant. It will not work. So you try the other one. And that does.

and you will go "ah I wondered what that one was for"

I've got 2 bunches of keys with 14 keys on each = 28

Mostly work stuff, plus ones for bike locks, locks for my tools at the veg plot, house, car, shed and about 3 or 4 mystery ones that I'm sure do something very important indeed.

10.

tbf i have no idea what 8 of those keys even open/turn on at this point.

Let's see: Car, bike lock, house, office, safe, mom's house. It fees like more than that, but there you have it.

0.

I have no keychain, just some loose keys in my pockets. It's not practical, but then I'm not very practical I suppose, I just got used to it.

6:

House
Car
The Master lock I bought to lock up the UHaul when I moved
Possibly the old house
Possibly my parents house
Possibly my mom's bike lock

Also a "church key" for opening beverages, but that's not actually a key and I don't really drink.

8.
apt + apt tag for getting into the building
parents' house
parents' garage
bike
bike
some lock
safe
one i really don't know what it's for

my theory is a large keychain is easier to keep track of

i forgot one - my car key
so there are TEN keys
i'm a janitor :(

5:

Gate
Front Door
Laundry Room
Back Door
Car

got two keychains because i hate a cumbersome keychain:
work keychain has 2 keys (main office and bathroom)
home keychain has 4 keys (building, apartment, mailbox, and car)

I have 2 different keyrings -- one with one (vehicle) and one with two (house and shop). Voted 2. Voting 3 didn't seem correct.

six

2 for building door
1 for apt door
1 mailbox
1 for bike lock
1 for lock i v. occasionally use at the gym

A humongous electronic car key, home key (operates both front door locks), an old gf's key I can't bear to part with, one family member's home. That's down over 50% from several years ago when I needed two house keys, mailbox key, work, outdoor rec facilities at my apartment, and a few keys that have been replaced by electronic cards that stay in my wallet rather than my keychain.

Do American cars (General Motors anyway) still use separate keys for entry and ignition? That was a pain, especially since they only fit in one direction.

think it's 7, 4 work keys, 1 house key, couple of unknown padlock looking things

2 regular keys
1 bike lock key
1 drum tuning "key"
1 bottle opener

don't want to count now but def 10+

3 for my apartment/building
1 for my bike lock
1 I don't know what it is
1 bottle opener that I don't even need because all the beers I'll drink are twist-offs

i've also got 1 fake coin for shopping trolleys
1 tesco club card
1 library card
2 key fobs

do you dudes with like 10+ keys walk around lopsided all day? or do you have huge-ass wallets too?

"I don't have a keychain or some weird keychain with no keys" I just found this extremely funny

i have a purse.

I have a huge ass wallet as well, never thought about it

1 car key
3 keys for my apt
3 keys for my gf's apt
2 keys for my apt's gym
1 key that I have no idea what it is for

so 10

also a giant bottle opener w/ some pic of a pope on it

also, also, also,

I have FIVE key ring loops attached to my main loop (the bottle opener)

reconsidering my life now

5

car key (big fat thing with door & alarm buttons on it)
apt building outer
apt door inner
kryptonite
apt mailbox

kryptonite?

in case of Superman attack, it is the key to survival

yes

http://www.kryptonitelock.com

13

4 flat keys
4 shop keys
4 bike keys
1 padlock key

Spin Doctors made a whole album about having too many bike lock keys on your chain iirc.

i have a purse.

― sarahel, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:51 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

I have two keychains with different numbers of keys.

front door (building)
bottom lock (apt)
top lock (apt)
mailbox
idk

5

http://www.kryptonitelock.com

Ah, I should have figured as much

i have 3

apartment
mailbox
??? some mysterious key my landlord gave me that i have kept on my keychain for no real reason

4 flat keys
4 shop keys

c shop major

I should not be laughing at that as hard as I am, should I

my front door
the door to my apartment
the door to my office

four:

front door
door to apt
mailbox
door to office

at my old house my landlord gave me a key when we moved that was supposed to unlock the backdoor but that was made for a different lock. i never got it fixed or asked the correct key but just carried it around for the whole time i lived there. i think its nice to have enough keys on my key ring to give it some heft, just two keys look so lonely

yeah i think thats why i still have that key on my keychain, that and a childhood of fantasy novels that lead me to believe that i will eventually come across a secret door in the apartment, that can only be opened by my extra key, that leads to narnia or whatever

aww

Does it look like this?

http://4photos.net/photosv2/488878_old_door_key.jpg

max that reminds me of a story that I'd forgotten until now

when I was a kid, when my mom got married to my stepdad, I was like what, 7 or 8 or so, my friend, who I was playing with, who was my age, got locked in a closet without a handle on the inside. I was freaked out, and he was yelling, and it was in a different part of the venue where the wedding was held, so I had to run down a bunch of hallways, into the room where the ceremony was taking place (it was an indian wedding ceremony that was loooong as fuck so people, usually kids, could walk in and out as they pleased). I busted into the room and shouted if anyone had an ax. Everyone stared and me, and then kind of looked at the priest, who stopped for a moment, but just continued going on, and I was like, ____, _____ is locked in a, and before I could even finish, his dad stood up, put his hand on my back and guided me out of the room. He calmly asked me where the closet was, went to it, pulled a key rin with like 30 keys on it out, tried one that looked like an old timey prison key, opened the door, let his son out, and just wordlessly went back to the ceremony.

rin = out I guess

Building front door Yale
Building front door old lock
Flat
Car
Bike lock 1
Bike lock 2
Office
Beer bottles
Next door's front door

I think that's it.

car
bicycle lock
mailbox
front door
back door
mom's house

car #1
car #2
mrs shasta's car
bike rack
mailbox
house
back door
side door
office #1
office #2
this weird tool my mother gave me that's like a very minimal swiss army knife (has a glasses micro-screwdriver that rules)

Apt. building door (foyer)
Apt. front door #1
Apt. front door #2
Apt. back door
Apt. basement door
Car
Bike

(Also: a fob for work, but I didn't count that.)

My parents found/were given a box of crazy old keys to the original locks on every door in our house, when they bought it. I wonder what happened to all those. And every door means EVERY DOOR--every doorknob was also a lock.

No sorry that's inexact: I mean every door that had a doorknob also had a lock plate. Sort of like

http://www.historichomehardware.com/store/bmz_cache/f/f4986d4b86412d9f002db6e23208a513.image.300x300.jpg

Oh, I said two the other day but it's really only one. One key.

I do have a separate key ring for my car but that also only has one key on it so I guess two wasn't wrong but it wasn't how I was looking at it initially.